eXist is an Open Source native XML database featuring efficient, index-based XQuery processing, automatic indexing, extensions for full-text search, XUpdate support and tight integration with existing XML development tools.
The following tests have been evaluated against results provided by other XQuery processors.
| Test name | Reference software | Considered result |
| CastAs672 | Saxon8.9J | true |
The following tests have required a comparison method different from the standard one.
| Test name | Comparison method |
| copynamespace-2 | XML |
| ForExprType057 | UnnormalizedText |
| ForExprType059 | TextAsXML |
| ForExprType060 | TextAsXML |
| Constr-inscope-1 | TextAsXML |
| Constr-inscope-3 | TextAsXML |
| Constr-inscope-4 | TextAsXML |
UnnormalizedText : result text nodes are concatenated without introducing (normalized) spaces between them.
TextAsXML : result string is evaluated as if it were XML, then an XML comparison is done.
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